Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

June 15, 2009

For some people of a leftist political persuasion, practically any kind of political speech with which they disagree is to be considered ?hate speech.?

Typical of such people is Bonnie Erbe, a commentator for PBS and US News, who refers to the recent shooting at the Holocaust Museum as ?a clarion call for banning hate speech.?

Grouping that shooting with the murders of abortionist George Tiller and Army Private William Long ? the latter killed by a convert to Islam ? Erbe insists:

?It?s not enough to prosecute these murders as murders. They are hate-motivated crimes and each of these men had been under some sort of police surveillance prior to their actions. Isn?t it time we started rounding up promoters of hate before they kill??

Erbe apparently believes that she, or similarly wise and oracular people, can foretell crimes before they happen. It?s an interesting fantasy. It would be a totalitarian policy.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.

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